Harry Sidebottom: The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome (2023)
ISBN: 9780861546855
Harry Sidebottom: The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome (2023)
ISBN: 9780861546855
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On 8 June 218 AD, a fourteen-year-old Syrian boy, egged on by his grandmother, led an army to battle in a Roman civil war. Against all expectations, he was victorious.
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ISBN
9780861546855
Author
Harry Sidebottom
Pages
352
Binding
Soft cover
Publisher
ONEWORLD PUBLICATIONS
Date of publication
2023
Format
Book
Language
English
Varius Avitus Bassianus, known to the modern world as Heliogabalus, was proclaimed emperor. The next four years were to be the strangest in the history of the empire.Heliogabalus humiliated the prestigious Senators and threw extravagant dinner partiesfor lower-class friends. He ousted Jupiter from his summit among the gods and replaced him with Elagabal. He married a Vestal Virgin – twice. Rumours abounded that he was a prostitute. In the first biography of Heliogabalus in over half a century, HarrySidebottom unveils the high drama of sex, religion, power and culture in Ancient Rome as we’ve never seen it before.
